Edmund M. ("Ed") Erickson, 1st Lt., B-24 Bombardier, USAAF, 8th Air Force, 801st Bomb Group, 859th Bomb Squadron, Station 174 Harrington Field, UK, (also 492nd Bomb Group) and Brindisi, Italy. Nickname the "Carpetbaggers." Flew 56 secret night missions supplying the French and Yugoslavian Resistance during WWII. On Feb. 25, 1945 the B-24 was running out of gasoline and in lightening the aircarft unknowingly dropped a rather expensive cargo (gold) into the Adriatic Sea. Ed's wife Betty Erickson also worked in war industries in the Twin Cities during the war.

For more information see Ed's You Tube video and 8th AFHS-MN webpage at

https://sites.google.com/site/8thafhsmn/pictures/ed-erickson-b-24-bomba…